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A Northern Vancouver Island Pelagic Birding Trip - Update
The pelagic trip I wrote about earlier this month is now officially going to happen.
The date of the trip is Sept 7th. It will be the only pelagic birding trip in a boat with a heated cabin and on-board washroom facilities offered on the west coast of Canada this summer.
For those of you who don’t know what birding is, it is bird watching. Bird watchers often keep life lists of all the birds they have every seen. Some go further keeping lists of birds seen in North America, in Canada, in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island and even in their back yard. Some keep crazy bird lists, like birds I’ve identified from an outhouse, on television, while driving etc.
Anyway, for Canadian Birders this is a chance to pad your Canadian list with pelagic specialties from the west coast. The trip leaves from Port McNeill, Northern Vancouver Island. The boat is called the Naiad and is operated by skipper Bill McKay of McKay’s Whale watching. Here’s a link about the boat:
http://www.whaletime.com/tours_boat.cfm
This trip was instigated by the American Birding Association or ABA. They are having a convention in Vancouver in late August-early September 2008. I was asked to put on a pelagic trip for them post conference. So the spots on the trip are available first to the ABA delegates to the conference. I will be keeping a list of those interested who are not ABA delegates. Contact me: info@rainbirdexcursions.com